The Study Of Acupuncture Literature On Peripheral Facial Paralysis

Peripheral facial paralysis is also known as idiopathic facial palsy, facial neuritis or Bell's palsy and refers to an acute disease with unilateral facial muscle torpor. Its main symptom is facial distortion. It is mainly caused by weakness of healthy qi, deficiency of meridians, and invasion of the face by pathogenic wind-cold and wind-heat, which results in the obstruction of meridian qi, malnutrition of meridians, torpor of tendons; which then causes the disease.According to the basic method of literature research, which is to distinguish academic standpoints and observe the origin and development of academic theses; The important ancient acupuncture-moxibustion (abbrev. as acu-moxi) and Chinese medical books and modern documents related to peripheral facial paralysis were collected and consulted, the articles on peripheral facial paralysis with acu-moxi were summarized to reveal the evolution process and development of peripheral facial paralysis with acu-moxi, and the characteristics to prevent and treat peripheral facial paralysis in ancient and modern times were analyzed. And then the basic thoughts to prevent and treat peripheral facial paralysis with acu-moxi are put forward.Based on the basic method of literature research of TCM, the related documents in ancient and the articles in about recent 50 years were collected, and the ideas on the location of disease, etiology and pathogenesis, clinical manifestations, selection and compatible application of acupoints, the methods and techniques of acu-moxi, the other forms of acu-moxi therapies in ancient and modern times were compared and analyzed, the characteristics of prevention and treatment on peripheral facial paralysis with acu-moxi were summarized, the related problems urgently needing to be solved in the future were discussed.By the control research of documents in ancient and modern times, the core tenets of preventing and treating peripheral facial paralysis with acu-moxi were summarized as follows:the basic precondition is identifying location of the disease, distinguishing the origin of disease, grasping the pathogenesis cautiously. The important foundation is the proper selection and compatible application of acupoints; the basic therapeutic principles are to relax muscles, activate blood flow, regulate qi and blood, diagnose and treat basing on differentiation of syndromes; the optimized mode is to ascertain diagnosis, treat properly by borrowing modern medical theories and techniques; the key to improve curative effect is the three-step approach which is "locating position of disease first, dividing into different periods second, diagnosing basing on differentiation of syndromes last"; the predominant thought is "prevention before disease onset, preventing the disease from exacerbating, preventing recrudescence after cure"; the important guarantee is treating with synthetic therapies and cooperation between doctors and patients.